On the Edge of Common Sense

Catching avocado rustlers is sort of a cross between the Covid virus, wildfires, exchange students bearing addictive goodies and coon hunting.

“All right, come down outta that tree and drop that avocado. Frisk him, Ken and don’t forget to check for lemons.”

In the southern California county of Ventura you will find the occasionally fractious co-mingling of densely populated residential areas and i...